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aiearly so, at the base; top, oral or round. The forcing bud is 

 :fl.at, or medium size, with a slightly peaked or pointed top. 

 The wood bud is small, flat at the base and pointed. Fruit buds, 



Fig. i>. 



when they start in the spring, will blossom at each joint from 

 the first to the fourth or fifth. A. forcing bud will never blos- 

 som unless it is forced to do so by i)inching the top of the vine 

 when fifteen or twenty inches long. A wood bud can never be 

 forced into fruiting, to any advantage. There is from two to 

 three weeks difference in the time of ripening the grapes from 

 the two buds first mentioned. Fully nine-tenths of the grape 

 growers of this country are using forcing buds for fruiting, and 

 that is the reason so many grapes never ripen. It is of the ut- 

 m.ost importance that grape growers should be familiar with 

 .grape buds, for on this everything depends. Whatever system 

 of trimming you may practice, remove all buds except the fruit- 

 ing ones, an 1 in no case should these exceed twelve to any root. 

 The number of fruit buds must be regulated by the age and 

 vigor of the vine; young^vihes are often ruined by overbearing. 

 Fig. 2 represents Fig. 1 wlien two years old, laid down ready to 

 be covered for winter protection. Fig. 3 represents the same 

 vine, the next fall, loaded with fruit. 



Fig. 3. — Training Vine to Teellis. 



The trellis is of three No. 12 white wires, on posts three and a 

 half feet high, the bottom wire twelve inches from the ground, 

 the second midway between the foot and the top. The horizon- 

 .tal vine in Fig. 3 is Fig. 2 in its subsequent position on the 



